As your senior loved one ages, you might begin to worry about their physical and mental health. You may notice that they struggle with simple tasks, or that their memory isn’t as sharp as it once was.

What you’re worrying about is a loss of their ability to care for themselves or be independent. Typically, these worries are brought on by deterioration in mobility and in ability to perform activities of daily living such as dressing, using the washroom, or taking a bath.

In this post we’ll cover more about functional decline, common types to recognize, what this means for your senior loved ones, and how to slow down or delay functional decline.

Creating art offers these health benefits for people of all ages, but it offers a special opportunity for aging seniors to find control and purpose in their life again.

As some seniors age, they can develop chronic illnesses that can negatively affect every aspect of their life. In this post we’ll explain more about how using art as a form of therapy helps improve aging seniors’ mental health, cognitive abilities, and sensory-motor functions.

Often times the most frustrating part of Parkinson’s is there is no universal method to alleviate symptoms, as each person will experience the disease differently and require a different change in lifestyle. As a caregiver, you have the advantage of being in regular contact with your Parkinson’s patient and you can use this relationship to better understand their specific needs and help them with working towards improving their quality of life.

There are a couple of specific areas that you can focus on to help someone with Parkinson’s.

Brain injuries are incredibly scary and difficult to deal with because the brain is pivotal to a person’s human experience. Both your conscious and unconscious self rely on this one organ. In this post, we will be exploring acquired brain injury (ABI) in particular, where the term “acquired” is used to signify that the injury occurred after birth.

The process of healing can be a precarious one, this is further exacerbated by radical inconsistencies in how different hospitals approach discharge planning. There exists very little obligation for hospitals to provide extensive services in this regard to their patients or any consideration to you as a family member or caregiver. Awareness continues to grow for the roles that families an unpaid caregivers play in a patient's long term health care, but until then it is very important for you to adopt a proactive approach. With the careful consideration of your options you may reduce the patient’s chances of readmission, avoid medicinal side-effects and help to promote their quality of life.